I remember though, even then, the shame behind my culture in school and the mocking names people would give me when I would share small pieces of my culture and of my community even though, for the most part, I looked like a white girl.
Furthermore, the attached footnote seems to claim that some sentences with "mock proper names" (i.e., an empty singular term) are true, when the name is governed by an attitudinal verb.
Mocking its name, or the name of nearby Lake Poopó, is considered incredibly rude and has resulted in spontaneous stabbings.
Mr. Dunne, who is sometimes mocked for name dropping in his monthly Vanity Fair diary entries, is unrepentant.
Apart from the first instance, where he mocked my name, I never experienced it until I ended our relationship.
In many of the 17,000 comments (so far), disgruntled consumers mocked the name of the new DVD company, Qwikster, and predicted its demise.
Besides, those of us who have been around the neighborhood since before it was trendy gave it a mock-trendy name long ago: HoTun.
The media measurement company Arbitron recreated an old-fashioned candy store, with shelves of sweets in glass jars, including candy cigarettes in packages bearing mock brand names like Stallion, Target and Victory.
They started the federation as a diversion, giving it an over-the-top logo (winged lions whose mouths are stuffed with the ends of a hot dog, and a Latin inscription that means, "In gorging, truth") and the mock-serious name of International Federation of Competitive Eating, or I.F.O.C.E.
Didn't they consider the implications of people mocking the name?
